E2value – Architectural Style Page 1 of 2

e2Value – Architectural Style Page 1 of 2

The Architectural Style is a very important aspect of the e2Value system. You wouldn’t insure a car without knowing its make and model, so why insure a house without knowing its construction style? The style of home tells the system a great deal about the house. It tells the system how many floors are most likely in the home, the window types generally associated with it, construction practices, architect’s and builder’s fees, etc. e2Value’s Architectural Style list is often intimidating if you are unfamiliar with architectural styles. However, there is an easy approach to determining the architectural style of the home you are estimating:

1. Ask your homeowner what style of home they have. Nine times out of ten, the homeowner knows the style. 2. If the homeowner doesn’t know the style and you know what the house looks like, start by comparing it to some of the common architectural styles in the U.S.:

2-Family Home American Four Square Basic Bi-Level

A house with two dwelling A plain square two-and-a- Any small, simple, square A house where the garage units; each dwelling unit half-story house; usually 4 or rectangular home that and one room are on the has a separate entrance rooms per floor, a front is one story high with a lower level with the porch with wide stairs, and slightly pitched roof remainder of the house a hipped roof above

Bungalow Cape Cod Colonial Colonial, Spanish

A one- or one-and-a-half- A wood-frame or shingled One of the most common A western style of home story home with a slightly house with a steep roof; architectural styles; characterized as a long pitched, broad gable roof often has several dormers typically a two- to two- building with a covered and a smaller roof and-a-half-story house porch and stucco exterior covering either an open or with a clapboard exterior screened porch (which may be covered with siding), gable roof (with a roof line parallel to the main road), central door, symmetrically arranged double-hung windows, and one or two chimneys

Contemporary Contractor Modern Farmhouse Log

Any style of home that is Includes a range of A simple box-shaped An Early American frontier currently built en mass by modern houses built from house with clapboard or style of housing made of builders; characteristics the 1950s to the 1970s; shingle siding, a gable logs; originally used during can include irregular usually with horizontal roof and often a the settlement of the U.S. shapes, large windows lines, overhanging eaves, wraparound porch when lumber was not and open floor plans recessed porch and readily available exteriors in a mixture of wood (often stained), brick or stone

Mediterranean Ranch Split Level Townhouse

Homes of one to three Modern style of home with Features staggered floor A dwelling unit of usually stories with stucco all of the rooms on one levels so that each level is two or more floors plus a exteriors and red roof tiles floor about a half story above garage; is attached to or below the adjacent one other similar units via party walls; typically found in condominiums and cooperatives or as part of a planned unit development

Tri-Level Tudor Vernacular/Folk Victorian

Split level house with An English-style imposing A loosely defined term, This encompasses several three levels; usually a looking house with usually referring to simple styles, Italianate, Mansard, central staircase; fortress lines; siding is houses built with Queen Anne and Victorian frequently a garage and/or chiefly stone and brick indigenous materials in a Gothic; characterized by family room on the lowest with some stucco and half style unique to the specific gingerbread millwork, level and bedrooms on the timbers; windows and area; home may be steep gable roofs, arched top level doors have molded modeled after colonial or windows and towers with cement or stone trim other plain clapboard peaked roofs around them styles

1. Ask your homeowner what style of home they have. Nine times out of ten, the homeowner knows this. 2. If the homeowner doesn’t know the style and you know what the house looks like, start by comparing it to some of the common high value architectural styles in the U.S.:

2-Family Home American Four Square Adirondack Colonial

A house with two dwelling A plain square two-and-a- Homes that use cedar log One of the most common units; each dwelling unit half-story house; usually and twig-work patterns in architectural styles; has a separate entrance 4 rooms per floor, a front their construction; typically a two- to two-and- porch with wide stairs, typically found in upstate a-half-story house with a and a hipped roof New York clapboard exterior (which may be covered with siding), gable roof (with a roof line parallel to the main road), central door, symmetrically arranged double-hung windows, and one or two chimneys

Colonial, Custom Colonial, Spanish Completely Custom Contemporary

Large Colonial style A western style of home A structure specifically Any style of home that is homes that have been characterized as a long designed for the currently built en mass by customized for the owner; building with a covered homeowner by an builders; characteristics may have more complex porch and stucco exterior architect and designer can include irregular shapes and features than shapes, large windows and a traditional Colonial open floor plans

Contractor Modern Designed by a Famous European Influenced Farmhouse Architect

Includes a range of An eclectic mix of styles A simple box-shaped modern houses built from Designed by a well- with origins in European house with clapboard or the 1950s to the 1970s; known architect who is culture shingle siding, a gable roof usually with horizontal featured in published and often a wraparound lines, overhanging eaves, works porch recessed porch and exteriors in a mixture of wood (often stained), brick or stone

Italianate Mediterranean Ranch Shingle Style

A rectangular two- to Homes of one to three Modern style of home A two- to three-story home three-story house with a stories with stucco with all of the rooms on with a wood shingled roof, very slightly pitched roof, exteriors and red roof tiles one floor exterior and foundation tall thin windows and pronounced exterior moldings

Townhouse Tudor Vernacular/Folk Victorian

A dwelling unit of usually An English-style imposing A loosely defined term, This encompasses several two or more floors plus a looking house with usually referring to simple styles, Italianate, Mansard, garage; is attached to fortress lines; siding is houses built with Queen Anne and Victorian other similar units via chiefly stone and brick indigenous materials in a Gothic; characterized by party walls; typically found with some stucco and half style unique to the gingerbread millwork, in condominiums and timbers; windows and specific area; home may steep gable roofs, arched cooperatives or as part of doors have molded be modeled after colonial windows and towers with a planned unit cement or stone trim or other plain clapboard peaked roofs development around them styles